The Utah County Clerk's Office has lost its three top elections administrators since May. The changes came in the months before a rare, pushed-back municipal primary election.
County Clerk Aaron Davidson
The three administrators who left had a combined 39 years of election administration experience, according to the former employees. A ballot center technician also left as recently as Sept. 8. "I was asked a lot of questions about my job," wrote one of them in the report. "I was then asked by Kaylee if I had any loyalties to a previous administrator."
"She then went on to name several former county employees and former clerks as being involved in the conspiracy," the report further alleges. It was at that point, the report states, that the two employees said Cox shouted and threatened them."Kaylee then threatened me ," one employee writes. "She stated very angrily, something to the effect of 'if I get burned' and then pointed to the and me," the report states.
Justin Larsen was the former assistant elections director who left in July and agreed to speak on the record. Separate from the human resources report he filed, Larsen described the incident to KSL NewsRadio as Cox "going off the rails."Larsen believes he was passed over for the elections director job because of the incident with Cox. Davidson said that was not true.
Cox, meanwhile, took over a merited position, meaning one that requires experience. She has half a year of election administration experience, public employment records show. "HR put out the requirements, and we made some changes and I can't remember exactly where, and the commissioners agreed with them and we used that job requirement and we put it out for applications and she applied and she got the job," he said.